Courses
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Structural Surfaces
This course is about maximum effect with minimum means. Complex surfaces present a wide variety of construction and structural challenges, as well as a rich…
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Poetics of Planting Design
Poetics of Planting Design is a workshop-based seminar built around a series of investigations into the spatial implications of plants in Landscape Architecture. The course…
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Visualization (at SEAS)
SEAS Computer Science 171 Catalog Number: 8877 Tu., Th., 2:30-4, and a weekly section to be arranged. Please check the…
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Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Jay Wickersham
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the M.Arch I program, examines basic issues arising in contemporary architectural practice. The course challenges the students to examine critically…
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The Practice as Project
The role of the architect today is constantly shifting. While society will continue to require numbers of well rounded, licensed and affiliated architects to provide…
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Design Competitions
Design competitions are increasingly used to procure design of, well, just about anything you can think of. In the world of built and landscape environments,…
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Innovation in Project Delivery
Project delivery – the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its built environment – has undergone a radical transformation over the past…
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Contemporary Practices in Urbanism
Mark Johnson, Christopher Glaisek
This course will provide an in-depth study of the range of practice issues, methods and strategies for achieving built works in the urban context, including…
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Research Seminar on New Towns in China
This research seminar is the first phase of a 2 1/2 year research project on new towns sponsored by the China Vanke Co. Vanke is…
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Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective
Small-scale manufacturing in workshops and homes, small-scale trading on street corners or makeshift markets, car guarding, waste collecting, among a myriad of informal activities, is…
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Vegetal City: Projecting Urban Canopy
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Sonja Dümpelmann
In this seminar/workshop we will explore an under-studied but crucially important urban realm—the designed, adapted vegetative canopy—through descriptive, analytical, and projective methods. We will build…
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SURPLUS HOUSING: Models of Collective Living in South America.
Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings in multiple forms…
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Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies
The interface between the constructed environment and ecological systems is slowly blurring strategies in urbanism, biological engineering, and technological interface. These strategies encourage the application…
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REAL: Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen
The built environment is one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic artifact of the human being. We perceive it as a complex entity resulting from…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Masters Degrees
Niall Kirkwood, Diane Davis, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Leire Asensio Villoria, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Michael Hooper, Jill Desimini, David Mah, Jane Hutton, Frank Apeseche, Holly Samuelson, Florian Idenburg, Rahul Mehrotra, Jana Cephas, Andreas Georgoulias, Zaneta Hong, Christine Smith, Mark Mulligan, Peter Rowe, K. Michael Hays, Alistair McIntosh, Ann Forsyth, Joan Busquets, Bing Wang, Jay Wickersham, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Bradley Cantrell, Silvia Benedito, Gareth Doherty, Susan Snyder, Edward Eigen, Erika Naginski, George Thomas, Charles Waldheim
Students may take a maximum of 8 credit units with different instructors in this course series.Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Candidates may arrange individual work focusing on…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of Degree MArch
Maryann Thompson, Jorge Silvetti, K. Michael Hays, Toshiko Mori, Mack Scogin, Preston Scott Cohen, Grace La, Elizabeth Whittaker, Cameron Wu, Andrew Witt, Eric Howeler, Jeffry Burchard, Rahul Mehrotra, Mariana Ibanez, Florian Idenburg, Hanif Kara, Iñaki Abalos, Leire Asensio Villoria, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Carles Muro, Edward Eigen
Following preparation in GSD 9203, each student conducts a design exploration that tests and expands the thesis.Prerequisites: GSD 9203…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP
Bing Wang, Diane Davis, Carles Muro, Robert Pietrusko, Rahul Mehrotra, David Mah, Jill Desimini, Michael Hooper
Following preparation in GSD 9204, each student pursues a topic of relevance to urban design or urban planning, which may include design or planning exploration,…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Christine Smith, Neil Leach, Salmaan Craig, Sonja Dümpelmann, Diane Davis, Susan Snyder, Panagiotis Michalatos, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, David Mah, Holly Samuelson, Hanif Kara, Rahul Mehrotra, Robert Pietrusko, Gareth Doherty, Antoine Picon, Kiel Moe, Andrew Witt, Ali Malkawi, John R. Stilgoe, K. Michael Hays, Allen Sayegh, Bing Wang, Frank Apeseche
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…
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Master of Design Studies Final Project
Richard Peiser, Silvia Benedito, Jana Cephas, Krzysztof Wodiczko
The Final Project will consist of a theoretical/position component, and of a practical/experimental component. The scope of each of the two components will be determined…
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Independent Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Master in Landscape Architecture
Anita Berrizbeitia, Sonja Dümpelmann, Rosetta S. Elkin, Leire Asensio Villoria, Jill Desimini, David Mah, Jane Hutton, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Bradley Cantrell, Silvia Benedito, Gareth Doherty
Following preparation in GSD 9341, each student pursues a topic of relevance to landscape architecture, which must include academic inquiry and design exploration.
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
Peter Rowe, Antoine Picon, Charles Waldheim, Erika Naginski, Panagiotis Michalatos
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Preparation of Doctoral Thesis Proposal
Peter Rowe, Martin Bechthold, Ali Malkawi, Antoine Picon, Neil Brenner
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.
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Thesis in Satisfaction of the Degree Doctor of Design
Peter Rowe, Martin Bechthold, Antoine Picon, Diane Davis
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Thesis Extension in Satisfaction of Degree Doctor of Design
A. Hashim Sarkis, Charles Waldheim, Martin Bechthold, Spiro Pollalis, Anita Berrizbeitia, Peter Rowe, Richard Peiser, Antoine Picon
Under guidance of a faculty committee, the student conducts investigations and prepares a doctoral thesis.
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Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
This seminar offers an overview of various types and practices of research methodology in contemporary landscape architecture. Central to the ambitions of the course is…
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Media as Method
Today, the models of thought and levels of cognition that underlie the tools and technologies we use still on a daily basis, and over long…
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Proseminar in Art, Design and the Public Domain
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Silvia Benedito
The proseminar will serve as a space for artistic and design experimentation, and discussion intended to foreground students\’ emergent interests, concepts, and methodologies toward their…
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…
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